After doing this project, I now have a better understanding of what VoiceThread is. It is a twenty-first century medium that students can use to tell their stories. If I choose to use this for my classroom, it would be for upper grade levels. I think is a cool and invigorating way to have students use technology. As for my personal experience with this project, it was not my favorite assignment. It was a trial and error process but very time consuming. If you don't plan for this and have enough time to complete it, it can become very stressful. That is why I think for older students this project would be better suited. They will then have the ability to take responsibility on.
I would have my students use it to tell their creative writing stories, retell a story we read in class, or even to show at parent night. I would give a tutorial several times and have the students do practice runs with the program. For their first assignment that I took this as a grade for, I would grade by completion and if they fulfilled all requirements. After a couple a times of using VoiceThread, I would grade them more strictly. I would also have all of the students at the end of the year do like a video yearbook with VoiceThread to show all of the other classes.
Reflection:
After doing this project, I now have a better understanding of what VoiceThread is. It is a twenty-first century medium that students can use to tell their stories. If I choose to use this for my classroom, it would be for upper grade levels. I think is a cool and invigorating way to have students use technology. As for my personal experience with this project, it was not my favorite assignment. It was a trial and error process but very time consuming. If you don't plan for this and have enough time to complete it, it can become very stressful. That is why I think for older students this project would be better suited. They will then have the ability to take responsibility on.I would have my students use it to tell their creative writing stories, retell a story we read in class, or even to show at parent night. I would give a tutorial several times and have the students do practice runs with the program. For their first assignment that I took this as a grade for, I would grade by completion and if they fulfilled all requirements. After a couple a times of using VoiceThread, I would grade them more strictly. I would also have all of the students at the end of the year do like a video yearbook with VoiceThread to show all of the other classes.